"Danger of heavy rain and thunderstorms"

The weather spoils us with high temperatures and lots of sunshine. However, in the middle of the week, new storms are accumulating in some parts of the country. In addition to thunderstorms, heavy rains are threatening.

Summer is here and many Germans are frolicking this week in pools and lakes. After high temperatures and lots of sun, the weather in the next few days in the southwest becomes more and more variable. This again causes bad weather, which adds to lightning and thunder and heavy rain in the luggage. On Tuesday, there could be first in the southern half of the country heavy rain and thunderstorms, as announced by the German Meteorological Service (DWD). "Especially in Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate, thunderstorms can occur," said Dennis Schneider of the Meteomedia weather service. In the rest of the country, it was sunny and there was almost no clouds.

On Wednesday, thunderstorms activity continues to increase. "There is a particular danger of thunderstorms and heavy rains," says Schneider. It can sometimes happen to rain with large amounts of rain. Wednesday, in addition to Bavaria, the south-west and the south of North Rhine-Westphalia are affected by storms. It remains according to weather experts despite the heat storms all the time over-wet. It can even get very hot in the northeast – temperatures of up to 33 degrees are expected here. In the rest of the country, it is also relatively hot between 25 and 30 degrees

. Many thunderstorms Thursday

"Thursday is the day when thunderstorm activity is the strongest," says Schneider. It arrives in the southwest, Hesse and north of the Ruhr area and in the Harz to thunderstorms with heavy rains. While it remains summer in the rest of the country, it cools a bit in the southwest. Here are 21 to 25 degrees reached, while it can be up to 32 degrees in the East is still very hot.

At the end of the week, thunderstorms are settling a bit and thunderstorms are moving south. On Friday, thunder and thunder are the most intense in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. Here, the thermometer drops significantly – 17 to 18 degrees are reached in the southwest. In the rest of the country, it is clear with a few clouds on Friday at temperatures of 25 to 28 degrees.